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Why would the Indian Govt., of all people, support terrorist activity in Kashmir?!
do you think that government which is responsible for this:
Khalistani conflict and related
has said this:
To preserve the unity of India, if we have to eradicate 20 million Sikhs, we will do so.
- Balram Jakhar, a former Indian Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the Indian Parliament
- Balram Jakhar, a former Indian Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the Indian Parliament
During the late 1980s and the early 1990s, there was a dramatic rise in Sikh militancy in Punjab. Scholars have been unable to assess the claims of the government concerning the scale of violence. Lack of independent reporting by the press contributed toward the defamation of militants who enjoyed popular support toward the beginning of Khalistan's independence movement.[83] The Times of India reported:
"Often and unwittingly…journalists fall prey to the government disinformation which suavely manages to plant stories…The confusion gets compounded when government agencies also resort to feeding disinformation on letterheads of militant organisations since there is no way of confirming or seeking clarifications on press notes supposedly issued by militants who are underground and remain inaccessible most of the time."[84]
Ram Narayan Kumar, a human rights activist with considerable work experience in Punjab, provides remarkable insights into the workings of the state that sought to discredit the Sikh movement. He writes:
"My own research on Punjab…suggested that the state agencies were creating vigilante outfits in order to infiltrate the Sikh radical movement and generate a climate of moral revulsion by engineering heinous crimes which they then attributed to armed Sikh groups."[85]
In 1994, the United States Department of State reported that the Indian government had paid out more than 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing Sikhs. [citation needed] That saem year, the Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid about $1.5 billion to the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, to foment and support terrorist activity in Punjab and in Kashmir.[citation needed]
The Movement Against State Repression issued a report saying that the Indian government holds over 52,000 Sikhs as political prisoenrs without charge or trial. [citation needed] Some have reportedly been held since 1984. The Punjab State Magistracy and human-rights groups compiled figures showing that over a quarter of a million Sikhs were murdered at the hands of Indian forces. [citation needed] These figures were published in Inderjit Singh Jaijee's The Politics of Genocide.
"Often and unwittingly…journalists fall prey to the government disinformation which suavely manages to plant stories…The confusion gets compounded when government agencies also resort to feeding disinformation on letterheads of militant organisations since there is no way of confirming or seeking clarifications on press notes supposedly issued by militants who are underground and remain inaccessible most of the time."[84]
Ram Narayan Kumar, a human rights activist with considerable work experience in Punjab, provides remarkable insights into the workings of the state that sought to discredit the Sikh movement. He writes:
"My own research on Punjab…suggested that the state agencies were creating vigilante outfits in order to infiltrate the Sikh radical movement and generate a climate of moral revulsion by engineering heinous crimes which they then attributed to armed Sikh groups."[85]
In 1994, the United States Department of State reported that the Indian government had paid out more than 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing Sikhs. [citation needed] That saem year, the Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid about $1.5 billion to the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, to foment and support terrorist activity in Punjab and in Kashmir.[citation needed]
The Movement Against State Repression issued a report saying that the Indian government holds over 52,000 Sikhs as political prisoenrs without charge or trial. [citation needed] Some have reportedly been held since 1984. The Punjab State Magistracy and human-rights groups compiled figures showing that over a quarter of a million Sikhs were murdered at the hands of Indian forces. [citation needed] These figures were published in Inderjit Singh Jaijee's The Politics of Genocide.
should have any problems calling any national or religious minority 'a terrorist group' and having the mostly undereducated and often religiously and nationally fanatical citizens believe in it?
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